Full Issue:

“For many leading circles in the world today, the question is no longer, ‘Who is going
to be the next President of the United States?’ but, ‘What will the next President,
whoever he is, become?’” Lyndon LaRouche told a Dec. 12 seminar inWashington, D.C.
that was simultaneously webcast. “The problem is that ... the greatest crisis in modern
history, at least in the past two centuries, is hitting the United States and the
world right now,... and this crisis is sitting on theWhite House steps, sitting like
the ugliest monster ... you ever saw, waiting to greet the next President when he
arrives at the White House door. The problem is that, at present, the United States,
its political system, is almost totally unprepared to deal with reality.”

Economics

Attempts by Ibero-American nations to protect themselves from the global financial
collapse, as ASEAN-Plus-3 is doing, by forging broader trade and investment ties,
are being undermined by free-trade blackmail.